Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-10
FACTS ABOUT CANDY.
rhe Sort that Pays Best - What it
Costs TO Run Candy Stores.

There a. moro money In molasses |
candy 1T the ordinary selling prices than |
IN any other kind. Close to molasse5 |
candy comes chocolate drops, caramels |
and othe- candies in which sugar and
chocolate or plain fayors are the lngre-
dicntS- The candies on which there is
tho least profit in proportion to the SELL
Ing price are those which sell high. The
best confectiOner's sugar costs but little
over SIX cents ! pound, and the best
grades of mOlasSeS are not dear. They
and /. little flavoring make molasses
candy, and that Is why there Is so much
pTast i it.
Th1Te Is another particular besides
goJl grades of molaSSeSS OF sugar and
dsvorinS that makes big difference in
the quality of candy, and would ac-
count for the superiority of some candy
over other. That is the quality of the
cutter. Cheap cOnfectioners do not use
butter at all. There are plenty of sub
s..tutcj for il, but none answers en-
t;rcly. One Of the best known candy
men in New York, who has built up 4
large business, starting from a small
taffy shop, thinks that his use of 80
cent butter in his molasSeS candy has
done more TO build up his trade reputa-
ton than anything else. He gives as
the keynote Of candy success ''Pure
materials, fruit syrupS and fine butter -
The main expense IN running candy
store is rent and clerk hire. The rent
of Broadway or Fifth avenue store
runs from 3, 500 year TO SIS, 900, and
one or two may be over that. The rent
on 4 pound of candy costs almost rs
much - the sugar. The clerk hire Is
large in amount, as the candy trade is
not steady, but depends on the weather
and hours of the day. y fine after
noon Will crowd the store and work
every clerk, while on rainy days they
have nothing TO do but watch the flies.
The clerks are almost all girls, and get
from SC to Sl3 a week. with 4 fore
woman 1T Sl5 or SIS. The clerk hire
of an uptown Broadway store Is little
more than the rental usually, though
there is one place that pays as much
rent as clerk hire.
As much candy Of the best grades is
sold III summer as in winter, if not
more. The candy stores down town do
| a big summer business, as business men
buy candy there TO take TO their wives
out of town, and young clerks send
| boX every little while to their girl who
| Is off at some summer resort. In the
| winter the bulk OF the trade is by the
women themselves, who cause more
trouble than the men and do not buy 50
much of the highest price. When
| man IS buying candy he asks for the
! best. while 4 woman prices the candies
| as she does everything else.
| y wOman'S candy store can always
| DO told from mans candy store 10y
noticing whether there Is Il soda water
| fountain and some tables TO sit down
| at. y man does not go to candy
| store but 10 a drug store for whatever
soda water he may want, but 4 woman
| prefers 4 candy store 10 have a soda
water and ice cream attachment.
some of the candy stores are accused
| OF running liquor attachments in the
back room reserved for ice cream tables,
but as men do not 20 there male re-
porter has no way Of finding out except
by hcarsay whether there IS 4 secret for
men in the gulse of an Ice cream parlor.
| Tie best paid man in u candy establish
ment Is the designer Of new candies
! His pay is 80 or $50 week, while the
| foreman Of the factory receives only $50
or $40. There IS always a demand for
new candies with new names. Each
new thing invented las its run Of popu-
| larity FOR - little while, and then is sue
! ceedel 10y something else. The candy
man who puts the most taking novel
ties on the market Mt the right time is
the one who makes money. There is
constant demand, not only for new can
| dies, but FOR new flayors and designs in
I old standbys. Molasse5 candy IS as old
as any form of confectionery, yet there
are new flavors and forms OF II appear
| ing every little while, and caramels and
| Chocolates continually turn up with
some French name prelixed 10 them. \
man who can invent such things Is
worth money and IS rare.